Process and environmental variations continue to present significant challenges to designers of high-performance integrated circuits. In the past few years, while much research has...
Khaled R. Heloue, Chandramouli V. Kashyap, Farid N...
The early processing of sensory information by neuronal circuits often includes a reshaping of activity patterns that may facilitate the further processing of stimulus representat...
Stuart D. Wick, Martin T. Wiechert, Rainer W. Frie...
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
As VLSI technology reaches 45nm technology node, leakage power optimization has become a major design challenge. Threshold voltage (vt) assignment has been extensively studied, du...
Discrete gate sizing is a critical optimization in VLSI circuit design. Given a set of available gate sizes, discrete gate sizing problem asks to assign a size to each gate such th...